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Thursday, March 30, 2017

MKVtoolnix is a set of tools to create, alter, split, join and inspect
Matroska files(mkv). With these tools one can get information about
(mkvinfo) Matroska files, extract tracks/data from (mkvextract) Matroska
files and create (mkvmerge) Matroska files from other media files.
Matroska is a multimedia file format aiming to become THE new container
format for the future. Use MKVCleaver or gMKVExtractGUI to
extract/demultiplex mkv video and audio files.

MKVToolNix 10.0.0 changelog:

mkvmerge: AVC/h.264 parser: mkvmerge will now drop all frames before the first key frame as they cannot be decoded properly anyway.

mkvmerge: HEVC/h.265 parser: mkvmerge will now drop all frames before the first key frame as they cannot be decoded properly anyway.

gscan2pdf is a GUI to ease the process of producing PDFs or DjVus from scanned documents. You scan one or several pages in with File/Scan, and create a PDF of selected pages with File/Save PDF. At maturity, the GUI will have similar features to that of the Windows Imaging program, but with the express objective of writing a PDF, including metadata. Scanning is handled with SANE via scanimage. PDF conversion is done by libtiff. Perl is used for portability and ease of programming, with gtk2-perl for the GUI. This should therefore work more or less out of the box on any system with gtk2-perl, scanimage, and libtiff.

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Terasology is a game that pays ample tribute to Minecraft in initial
look and origin, but stakes out its own niche by adopting the NPC-helper
and caretaker feel from such games as Dwarf Fortress and Dungeon
Keeper, while striving for added depth and sophistication.

There are still some known issues that have been notable lately, those are tracked in a new milestone and hopefully we can fix some of those soon and maybe make Alpha 7 a pretty quick follow-up.